CNN analysis: It is difficult for the Trump-Xi meeting to replicate the historic results of the US-Soviet summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington on the 23rd local time in the United States, and U.S. President Trump personally went to Joint Base Andrews to greet him. The leaders of the United States and China are expected to hold a bilateral meeting at the White House on the 24th, which has attracted global attention. However, CNN analyzed that it would be difficult for the Trump-Xi meeting to replicate the historic results of the U.S.-Soviet summit.

"CNN" believes that the Trump-Xi meeting may improve U.S.-China relations and have a small degree of cooperation on issues such as trade, fentanyl, and avoiding military conflicts, but it will be difficult to reach a "historic agreement" like the reduction of nuclear weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Analysts pointed out that if the Trump-Xi meeting is to reach a "historic agreement," the content of the agreement may include restrictions on the development of AI, or the United States and China will increase the transparency of each other's technology industries so that each other can better understand their respective technological developments to build trust and security mechanisms.

The United States and China have both resisted any meaningful restrictions on AI, which is critical to sustaining economic growth. Many experts believe that China is currently lagging behind in the artificial intelligence race and is therefore unlikely to agree that both sides will jointly slow down the pace of AI development. China generally views any measures to limit its technological rise as part of a Western effort to deprive it of its rightful global status.

The analysis claims that the political systems of the United States and China are very different, and the policies of both sides are increasingly focused on containing the other party. Therefore, the common positions that the two countries can find are very limited, and it is difficult to find a common direction on major issues.

The analysis emphasizes that both the United States and China hope to prevent the situation from getting out of control, but they lack the leverage to force the other party to make concessions. Trump's poll numbers fell during the Iran war, which could undermine his global influence. Although Xi Jinping does not have to worry about domestic voters in his authoritarian system, he also needs to maintain his domestic power, and China itself is facing a real estate crisis and economic problems.

Analysts pointed out that the Trump-Xi meeting may make US-China relations slightly more stable, but it cannot be compared with the summits held by former US President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s, which brought the Cold War to a more peaceful end.